So, you fancy yourself a gamer huh? That would indeed explain why you are here. Well that is exactly where I saw myself a couple, or even just a year ago. Now I would look in the mirror and say that I see a pretty darn handsome nerd, not just some gamer. The truth of it is that for the most part, if you are calling yourself a gamer that you are more than just such. I of course always knew I loved Sci-Fi and had this inner attachment and outer attraction to comics and that all of these things coming together made me beyond happy, but at the end of the night I could generally be found sitting five feet from my television, in my 10x10 room illuminated by nothing but screen projection , playing some sort of video game. Somewhere between my sophomore year in high school and completing my first year of college, I realized I was not just a gamer but an all around nerd!

Simply playing Call of Duty with two or three of your friends late at night does not make you a gamer, and having general knowledge of a comic book hero or watching Episode One, Two, and Three of star wars certainly does not make you a nerd - by any means of the word. Now, for individuals like myself, the combination of playing twelve different or in my case attempting to choose between 100 steam games at night, fooling around in UDK during the day, reading comic books in not just spare time but making time to do so, and watching the whole marathon of the Star Wars Trilogy on Spike TV is what defines being a nerd.

I recently came to raelization with my true passion, which is and has always really been writing and conveying my opinion toward and about all things video games and nerd culture related. Shortly after this realization and having been writing officially for So Last Gen a couple months I attended Boston Comic Con - being my first convention - and I was completely overwhelmed with awe and excitement. I was lost in the creative and silly cosplays seen and inspired by the massive collection of artists and collaborators. Wandering the convention floor I consistently and repetitively found myself aimlessly gazing at figures and endlessly thumbing through boxes upon boxes of comics. I knew instantly, standing in line and after walking through the door seeing the convention floor for myself, that this was my dream environment.

Experiencing such a situation - sitting in on all of the wacky and informative panels, meeting, greeting, and talking with the individuals who have fueled one of my chosen platforms of entertainment and immersion was not enough for me, nor should it be for anyone so satisfied and comfortable with such a environment. I had to, and originally planned to write about my experience at Comic Con and this is exactly what I did. The event, even as small compared to others as it may be, was a perfect experience for myself and these things are what fuel me as a writer and a nerd. Titled 'Comic Con: A Fanboy's Dream Environment', I wrote an article accumulating my passion and the combined passion of nerds and why Comic Con is a great place which encapsulated my expectations and anxiousness. Following my experience at Comic Con, being very much what I expected and then some, I wrote ' Boston Comic Con: A Nerd's Dream Environment' because this is exactly what the Hynes Convention center brought me. I was always into comics and being that I am now much more independent than I ever was I have finally began my own collection of comics, rather than just reading them elsewhere. My obsession and massive attraction to nerd culture and vintage golden, silver, bronze age comics is what fueled this Comic Con aspiration and why I ended up in Boston April 21st - 22nd.

My room is filled with all things nerd and geek culture related. Halo, TMNT, Fallout 3, original NES box maps and posters literally cover my walls with comic and video game collectibles, comics, and toys [yes toys] filling the shelves and desktop in sight. The partial nightstand accompanying my bed has over thirty Nintendo and SNES games stacked next to my Nintendo and Super Nintendo systems held in it's under shelf and across from this on the side shelf of my desk is my N64 and about fifteen games all plugged into my LCD tv that hovers above my Xbox 360 and vertical stand of games. On my desk can usually be found my Laptop where when I am not doing something in UDK for school or writing a text based adventure game for my programming final I can probably be seen browsing my 100+ game steam library just to find myself playing some indie game from Desura for five hours straight to follow it up with an hour or so commitment to writing a review. This is my working environment, I am a nerd - and it all began when I was calling myself a gamer.